Most popular squamates in ME1LE

The 5 missions achievement is biased by whom you take for the post-Tali recruit Citadel side missions and Feros side missions.

Not all missions count, from what I experimented, anything that completes aboard the Normandy or when Shepard is alone, doesn't count as you have no party there.

Also, it seems that it doesn't start to count until you recruited Tali as I unlocked Ash/Tali at the same time while completing side missions on the Citadel in the first visit and I didn't use Tali anymore than Wrex/Kaidan (my 3 least used squadmates) over the entire game.

I unlocked the achievements for Ashley, Garrus, and Wrex first.

I unlocked in the following order: Ash, Tali, Garrus, Liara, Wrex, and poor, poor Kaiden who is now radioactive dust.

I have found near the end that Wrex and Tali maxed out in shotgun and equipped with high end shotguns and mods are pretty much wrecking machines (pun intended).

I never took Tali out once, and still got this achievement. In fact, I only took Kaidan and Wrex with me the whole game, and still got achievements for everyone. It seems you're trying to wind people up, is all.

I never said Garrus was useful in ME 1, I said he was useful in ME 3 with his insanity build which allows him to solo enemies. Tali is pretty useful in ME 1, her AI hacking is great against Geth, though I agree - Kaidan is more useful overall. Furthermore, I never brought in their popularity as LI - I was judging them based on their gameplay. Hell, I've never even romanced Tali before.

Fair enough. I jumped the gun a bit there with my assumption that it was yet another popularity post. I’m sorry.
But still, there are what two missions with Geth where Tali maybe useful? And those are toward the end game. She becomes as useful as meat to a vegan.
EDIT. I was referring to ME3 above.
Back to ME1. Again, Kaidan can overload and sabotage Geth and electronics, so Tali and Garrus are not needed.

A shame more people don't use Kaidan. He is one of the most useful squadmates in ME1 and ME3.

The tali one is being influenced by a bug. I got her five times achievement the first mission I brought her on, before anyone else. So I wouldn't hold that as a great metric.

Nice to see someone giving him a chance and realizing he is a pretty solid squadmate. Even better that you like him. He doesn't go down easily in ME1 because he has barrier. He is also a Sentinel which is a very well rounded class in general. It's also why Miranda is always as a solid squadmate as well. In ME3, Reave is very good for him. He can set up tech and biotic explosions very well on top of detonate them. He is another character you can't go wrong with on your team. I also agree his characterization and voice acting improve greatly in ME3.

As much as I like Ash, she is a very unnecessary character into ME3. Not only do I feel that her character regresses, but you don't need another soldier. You start with Vega and get Garrus early. And if your Shepard is a soldier, she becomes super redundant. Kaidan all the way for me. 

Only used Kaidan for Eden Prime, never got his Achievement. So, could be a bug that affects some? I have no idea, to be honest.


I realize you are saying this regarding Ash, but I still feel this way regardless of who you save. We didn't need Vega; I think they wanted that "Krogan-like" tank without giving us Wrex or Grunt (who from a story perspective, makes sense wouldn't be there), but they could have easily just dropped Vega for someone like Miranda or Jack really. Or, toss both Vega and Javik (since they changed the point of having him in the first place) and give us both Miranda and Jack. I'd be okay with that.

Lmao I can't believe Carth has simps.

ME1 I find him useless until mid game when his useful skills are finally unlocked(e.g. Lift, Electronics) and he doesn't eat dirt 2 seconds into any combat like he does early game, but by that point everyone is overpowered so it doesn't matter what squamates you pick so you may as well pick interesting ones (i.e. everyone but Carth).

Then Ash is far superior in 3. Give her a Typhoon and watch her wreck the whole map. Carth is probably the worst squadmate in 3 with his lack of weapon dakka, long ass cooldowns and pretty bad skills (cryo blast lmao).

Literally everyone>>>>>>>Carth.